at that time as essay was largest operating division within hhs and accounted for about 51% of hhs' total staff and more than half of its total annual budget. i intend to introduce legislation to remove cms for hhs. whether or not cms becomes an independent agency is something to consider going forward but the accountability and transparency problems we see in cms programs cannot wait. i hope we can work together in the coming months on the affordable care act and issues to create situations and solutions that work for all americans. finally i want to note that while there is much in the president's budget with which i disagree there are areas where i think we can find common ground. for example i appreciate the provision in the budget that addresses the issue of overreliance on comfort care facilities in group homes for children and youth in foster care. for years i've been working to call attention to the deplorable conditions in many of these group homes. recent research indicates these group homes or unsafe expensive and too often contribute to profoundly negative outcomes for the chi

at that time ssa was the largest operating division within hhs and accounted for about 51% of hhs's total staff and more than half of their total budget. now i intend to introduce legislation to move cms out of hhs. whether or not cms becomes an independent agency is something to consider going forward. but the accountability and transparence problems we currently see in c smrks programs cannot wait. i hope we can work together in the coming months to create situations and solutions that work for all americans. finally i want to note that while there is much in the president's budget with which i disagree there are areas where i think we can find common ground. for example i appreciate the provision in the budget that addresses the issue of overreliance on congregate care facilities or group homes for children and youth in foster care. for years i've been working to call attention to the deplorable conditions in many of these group homes. recent research indicates that these group homes are unsafe, expensive and too often contribute to profoundly negative outcomes for the children and you

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moment to thank the employees of hhs. >>> thank you. with that, i'm happy to take your questions. >> thank you, ms. burwell. as you know the supreme court will soon decide the legality of regulations from health department insurance subsidies to individuals in states with federal exchanges in the king-burwell case. it is in my opinion that the regulations vie late the constitution. but we'll find out what the court says soon enough. at yesterday's ways and means hearing, secretary lu refused to say if there's a contingency plan. secretary burwell does the administration have a contingency plan. >> senator right now, the justice department will represent for us in the supreme court is the correct position. we believe that both in terms of the spirit of the law and the intent of congress, as well as the letter of the law. and the justice will make that argument in terms of what we believe and what we see it as happening is the idea that tax credits would be provided by the congress for individuals in say, the sfat of new york but noot the

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are you or senior staff at hhs aware of this document? >> mr. chairman, this say document i am not aware of. >> okay despite burwell's comments, experts believe the administration has a contingency plan but trying to keep it under wraps to pressure the supreme court into not ruling against obamacare. >>> up next, it was a slow-moving white bronco, another chase captured this nation's attention for a period of time. the latest on the llamas on the loose. >>> and the direct offer national intelligence points the finger at vladimir putin when it comes to america's biggest cyberthreat. our biggest expert shows us what the nation can do to congratulations. you're down with crestor. yes! when diet and exercise aren't enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. crestor is not for people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor all medicines you take. call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowi

today the secretary of hhs,er hhs,erwell the main person in the supreme court, what happens if you lose court? she said he had none. >> the strategy has been to change the subject when she's been asked about this by reporters. >> you can't predict what the supreme court will do. if you go to the plain language of the statute of obama care, she's going to lose. if instead the supreme court says it goes beyond the language as far as interpreting policy then she'll win. but you don't just sit there when 5 million people are at risk of losing health insurance and not have a plan b. >> all right, now i want to talk about something that's the surprise that we have been talking about. and it has to do with greta's name and my name. have you ever noticed that they're relatively similar? >> they have had 16 inches of rain so far this year. >> i thought you actually suffered from heat stroke because you called me greta. >> ryan, thank you so much for your time today. >> good evening, sir. >> good evening greta. >> clearly that did not happen today, greta. i know your name's gretchen. >> oh. >> so

are you or senior staff at hhs aware of this document? >> mr. chairman, this say document i am not aware of. >> okay despite burwell's comments, experts believe the administration has a contingency plan but trying to keep it under wraps to pressure the supreme court into not ruling against obamacare. >>> up next, it was a slow-moving white bronco, another chase captured this nation's attention for a period of time. the latest on the llamas on the loose. >>> and the direct offer national intelligence points the finger at vladimir putin when it comes to america's biggest cyberthreat. our biggest expert shows us what the nation can do to protect itself, next. when tthe finger at vladimir putin protect itself, next. protect itself, next. or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you ta

among hhs executives. >> mr.chairman this is a document i am not aware of. >> reporter: several democrats opened their questioning of burr well pointed barbs at republicans. >> are you aware of any republican bill that would reduce the number of insured in this country by 19 million people? >> reporter: several gop plans are in the works, one bill by senator ben sass of nebraska would allow people who lose their jobs to keep their insurance for a grace period of 18 months, much like a cobra plan. bret? >> doug, thank you. >>> it is now legal to use marijuana recreationally here in washington, d.c. the district's mayor implemented voter-approved a minute station despite threats official does face prison time. they say it violates federal law. congress, not the mayor toer council, has final say over the district's laws and budget. >> no word if congress will move to stop the legislation. >>> stocks were mixed today. >>> no grapevine tonight so we can tell how is behind the mask during the brutal executions of ameri

chairman i would like to make clear that today is about the hhs budget. a multibillion-dollar budget that involves millions of americans. that is the topic at hand. i'm very interested in working with my colleagues on the other set of the aisle with health policy. i've shown that and so of my fellow democrats, but the idea of this morning that we are going to ask a witness to speculate about a court case, to speculate about some thing hypothetical at have a debate about something misses the point of the challenge at hand. the challenge as hand is about the budget. i hope we can figure out a way over the course of the morning. we have plenty of colleagues who still want to ask questions, to talk about the topic that was scheduled. and that is the budget, and not talking about hypotheticals about something else. this is not the department of justice's budget. this is the department of health and human services. oh we can stay on the budget and not get into recitation about a parade of hypotheticals. >> -- if i can respond to the ranking member it is the sam

so what is hhs, nih doing to find a cure? >> in this budget you see a 24% increase to funding for alzheimer's, which is much greater than the percentage increase even within the other nih. so focussing deeply on doing that there's also the brain initiative. we are also making progress on something called t-ou. it's one of the pieces of research going on. if we can make progress there, the other piece of research is seeing if there are ways that we can slow the progression by understanding how the neurochannels move and what's happening in the disease. those are pieces of research we're starting. we believe with the funding that we are asking for that we can move that research and make it broader. >> it is a focus in the united kingdom and other countries. are we keeping up with the rest of the world in research activities and investments? >> we believe that we are with regard to that. and i have been in touch with my colleagues and the secondretary or the ministerin the u.k. and we continue to have those conversationing. so w

and hhs will say that people are allowed to continue to go online this week and sign up.t they will not face that penalty, we believe. this is according to a white house official. and that sometime again in the next two weeks, they will decide whether that deadline will be moved more permanently. for the moment, hhs is saying people can continue to sign up online. >> you would think it would be beneficial for the white house to extend the deadline, the more people they get to sign up, especially younger, healthier people, the more the cost goes down. it is advantageous for them to have more people sign up. we'll stay on top of it. thank you for that. i appreciate it. >>> also this. if you're in the northeast, you are seeing it, you are feeling it, you are freezing. snow in february not normally a big news story, but there's nothing normal about these last few weeks. northeasterners getting ready to move south, but even the south getting into the wintry mix right now. we'll bring you the latest when we're back. s are learning about long-acting levemir® an injectable insuli

. >> hhs we have a problem. 800,000 were sent faulty forms with tax figures representing this year's premiums instead of last year's. how did this happen? one official says, quote, we are looking into it. as the feds investigate, those affected now being told to wait and delay filing taxes until they receive the right numbers. >> even if you fix the glitches and the mistakes, the thing is still going to be an administrative nightmare and it's going to drive people crazy at tax time. >> republicans are pou. congresswoman diane black calling this, quote, a classic friday news dump. senator john barrasso says the administration has, quote, added to its record of incompetence. and marcia blackburn says surprise, surprise the obama administration still does not have its act together. this seems like a big problem but white house officials insist that in the big picture, not a big deal. >> it's a small percentage of overall tax filers. less than 1% of people who file taxes. >> at a meeting this morning, president obama bragged about the strength of this year's enrollment statistics. >> we'

. >> hhs tries to build a learning health system. >> my ofof the instances we have seen is all preventablest of its kind gsa publishes a cyber media social vandalism toolkit. >> a lot of people sayay the government never tell some why there is a delay. >> why does the procurement process takes so long? "government matters" starts now. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> to our viewers around the world on the american forces

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that is the question that hhs and the treasury department are working to resolve. we do anticipate that they will be able to resolve this with them next couple of weeks in terms of sending out the updated form to the small percentage of people who got the wrong one. >> in terms of what went wrong and what you have done to prevent this from happening again, what he done? quest i encourage you to direct your questions over there and the operational steps to make sure it's something like this doesn't happen again. >> laying out details about this operation through the council that is going to be getting underway in a couple of months. it is a very specific operational detail about how many iraqi brigades in terms of forces. i'm wondering why detailed as an advance? does that not give your playbook to the islamic state and make them -- it easier for them to prayer -- prepare themselves to defend from the attacks? >> i think i may have seen some of the same news reports as you on this. discussion is something that is done by the department of defense. i'm not in positio

skipping more for hhs to cover. while some children we mand in custody more than three days we undertook government wide response to address crisis which included establishment of unified coordination group that brought assets of multiple agencies to bear on the situation. unaccompanied children are inherently vulnerable so we placed a high priority on identifying any protection concerns unaccompanied children from contiguous companies who don't present protection concerns -- excuse me under trafficking reauthorization act of 2008 when dhs encounters unaccompanied child from contiguous company such as mexico, the child is screened to identify potential victims of human trafficking and determine whether the child has a fear of persecution if returned to his or her home country. dhs as a matter of policy conducts screen on all unaccompanied screening regardless of country of origin. >> we'll come back and ask you questions on those topics, i promise. >> thank you distinguished members. thank you for allowing me to be

code, and it wasn't until this was exposed and we, by the way, have written a letter to ask cms and hhs how many people got. this how can would he be assured that their privacy is being protected right now today about the data that they shared? >> it is appalling. anyway. >> it is. >> representative, thank you. >> we'll keep working on it, thank you, greta. >> and straight ahead. we know president obama won't meet with israeli prime minister netanyahu when he is here next month but did leader nancy pelosi just give a nod and a wink telling democrats in congress to boycott netanyahu's speech to congress? you have to hear what house minority leader pelosi just does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? don't avoid it. resolve it. our new formula with a special conditioning ingredient softens your carpet with every use. it's resolve, so you know it cleans and freshens but now it also softens. resolve. a carpet that welcomes you. and try resolve for amazing stain removal the first time. want to know how hard it can be... ...to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic

. >> what do you consider your biggest accomplishment during your tenure at hhs? >> really waging the war against tobacco use. because tobacco use then and today still is the number one preventable cause of death. i never smoked and i have nothing against executives in the tobacco industry except their product kills people. and as a physician and as the nation's health secretary, my responsibility is to do everything i can to protect preserve and enhance the health of the american people. so we were very successful. we waged and effort against r.j. reynolds when they were going come in january of 1990 they're going to introduce a new cigarette in philadelphia called up down. it so happened at the time i was speaking at the university of pennsylvania so my speech really included an attack against r.j. reynolds producing this unfiltered, mentholated sigrid. and i was in what i thought a fight for many months. they surprised me because two weeks later they announced they were not proceeding with this new cigarette that they're going to test market. other things i'm p

hhs secretary burr well recently appeared to talk about the plan. she also took questions on implementing the health care law and the upcoming supreme court case the challenges of stax credit subsidies. >> good morning it's a pleasure to welcome everyone to today's hearing on the fils k58 year 2016 budget for the dp of health and human services, hhs. i want to thank you, secretary burwell for being here with us today. this is your first hearing before the committee since being confirmed. at that time we also discussed three main areas that i encouraged you to focus on during your time at hhs. responsibility, acountability and independence. i'd like to talk more about each of these areas today. let's talk about responsiveness. i raised the importance of being responsive to congress and to this committee in particular. you assured me that this would be a top priority of yours, as well, and that under your watch we would see a marked improvement. in the past year of this committee, written at least 20 letters asking questions about serious issues such

usda and hhs will come up with their guidance at the end of the year. this does not get taken back.ot part of the discussion could. mark: what do they see farmers planting? >> it has been a busy and cold day in washington for u.s. they releas. -- in washington. corn and cotton will be down. we also saw a reduction in soybean acreage. mark: alan covers the agriculture department for us. thank you so much. we are still waiting for the apple watch to hit stores and now apple is set to be working on its next prop -- next product. the applecart. trish regan joins me with more. trish: it could be a fabulous design because apple is known for its designs. it might be a bit of a departure for this company to get into the car business when they do all they do so well. a lot of people are saying that what might ultimately happen is we see apple come up with a fabulous software program that could go in any car and would diversify itself by not having all the risk placed on having to sell that hard to be vocal and instead be the software. mark: there is a good story on bloomberg.com apple's elec

given hhs's recent focus on alternative payment models, moving away from singular service, i wonder if your staff might be able to help work with us to provide the necessary technicologicalal assistance to work through this? >> because medicaid is state based, how do we make sure that that care is both quality and affordable across state lines. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. let's see, who's next here. senator bennett. >> thank you, sir. i appreciate it. very much. good to see you again. i certainly enjoyed talking to you yesterday as well. i do appreciate your responsiveness to the questions from senators. you have certainly established a positive reputation as it relates to getting back with us. it's obvious that you care about having a healthy relationship with senators, and i hope my comments do nothing to take away from that. from that. i will say that every dollar that we spend that we do not have is taking money from a youngster, a young person who cannot afford a lobbyist a young person who cannot afford to bear that burden, taking her future earn

martha, there are rumors circulating that senior hhs officials have a secret plan b should the supremert rule against obamacare. burwell will undoubtedly asked about the rumors in this plan b document as testimony gets underway again right about now. martha, back to you. martha: interesting, thank you doug. bill: there is new trouble for the obamacare architect jonathan gruber. remember this? >> for people who health insurance plans they will no longer get a 40% tax break. 40% tax on the insurance companies that sell these terrible expensive cadillac plans? we said well that is pretty much the same thing. why does it matter? you'll see and proposing that tax. americans are too stupid to understand the difference. bill: he just got fired. we'll tell you why, and from where. >> new reaction to the guilty verdict in the "american sniper" murder trial. we'll talk to a friend of chris kyle's former navy seal, marcus luttrell, whose story was made into the movie, lone survivor. why the killer's defense never held water. bill: will our strategy against isis today work in the end? why some are

could you describe what the federal right is and what it looks like after it gets through hhs and one that has to go through your employer or not? >> so, so on the first question if you look at, a even look at the sweep of american history, obviously there is a fundamental change in both and in what corporations do and how they are regulated, and that change is kind of overtime but i think what doesn't change this kind of this fundamental idea that is reflected in the founding debates that there is a difference between corporations and we the people. because corporations receive special privileges, now what the special privileges might be might be different in the monopoly setting but even under a general corporation law corporations receive special privileges that individual americans can't receive. that's the defining aspect of a corporation. because of that the government has a broader latitude to regulate corporations than it does individuals. i think that's the principle that is reflecting the text in history. so even though we have general corporation laws as opposed to a charte

the spoiled child is saying unless i get to break the law you will not get to find hhs. congress has a right to stand up for itself and say, we do not want to let you overreach like you are obviously doing. host: so do you think it is worth shutting down the homeland security department over this? caller: i wonder of the democrats do think that. let the president overreach and practice what he is not capable or does not have the right to do . i goes around and does the anyway. then the democrats say, we are for him breaking the law. host: that brings us back to where we started the conversation. what will happen with funding the department of homeland security? that deadline looming. guest: what really changed is that he wanted an excuse to tell democrats and the latino community, in particular, why he was not doing anything for them. so for 22 times, he said i did not have the authority to do it. that change. he decided he wanted to do it for them. it ends up being for the party for illegal immigrants, from various countries. he wanted to do that. he changed his tune. h

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hhs an thticipated they'd be ab to send the updated forms in the next couple week, ample time for peopleion of people who are affected. >> well, another day, another obamacare blunder. this time, the obama administration sent 800,000 healthcare.gov customers incorrect tax forms. with me now, obamacare author, betsy mccoy. betsy, it seems like there are three things in life that are certain, taxes, death and obamacare paperwork. >> that's right. this is death by paperwork. if you thought that paying taxes was complicated before, this makes it into torture. this is the h&r block full employment act. the mistake this week just shows this is too complicated even for the irs. >> give us some details on what the mistake is this week because it does affect a million people despite the administration trying to down play the number of people affected. >> it's supposed to go out to everyone who received an obamacare subsidy and you use the numbers on that form to fill out another form, form 8962, a form with 12 pages of instructions. everybody has to fill that out who's gotten a subsidy or wants a

so no major scandals at all, the epa, doj, nsa, hhs, irs, atf.aren't scandals they're one hell of an eye chart. the real scandal is this two-headed beast. one of ideology and one of accomplice. a mix of toxic ideologies immunized by fan boys in the media. if a progressive breaks the law in a forest full of media suck-ups, did it really happen? the scandal isn't obama's actions but those whose job was to report them. instead they knitted their own blindfolds. to them each scandal was progress. so sorry, dave. saying no major scandal is like saying no major pregnancies. especially when the media is your own personal planned parenthood. >> wow! there's a lot going on there. >> there was a lot going on there. i'm a little hungover. k.g., is this what you'd expect though? like can you blame axelrod? this is his side. it's his political ideology and that trumps truth. >> last time i checked, he wasn't on the payroll. what's the excuse? i actually prefer the honesty that we've seen from people like leon panetta others that haven't been afraid to come ou

students from rodney thompson, shirley hime and hh pool will go to new schools. total of 408 students will move. mostly to stafford county middle school which is seeing underenrollment. >>> four things to know as you head out. state department employee is in court this morning. he's accused of trying to solicit a minor. >>> a mosque in the district is vandalized for a second time. the ivy city mosque was vandalized the first time monday night and again yesterday. she ripped they ripped down wall hangings and broke chairs. >>> congress has until midnight tonight to make a deal or the department of home and security runs out of hope. thousands face furloughs or work without pay. lawmakers will try to it for a short term fix. >>> and there will be have a trash collectorsndweekend. >>> and prince george's county prince william county spotsylvania and fredericksburg city schools all on a two hour delay. of course you can check the status on the nbc washington app anytime. >>> we have a cloudy sky now looking off to the west. we should get sun breaking out later this m

hhs secretary sylvia mathews burwell admitted she has no mother loving idea what she or the administration will do if scotus interrupt us guts the aca, one woman who might have to jump into the fray? hillary clinton. though she's been hedging herself lately when asked about surveillance tactics in california this week, clinton said this. >> i resist saying, it has to be this or that. i want us to come to a better balance. kennedy: yeah, that's not the better balance, that's just confusion. pick a side, sister! if she's going to be our next president, she will not be able to stay mum on the nsa, the aca or isis, she is going to have to pick a side and choose. filling her coffers from bitcoin with 1%ers from silicon valley. while they are a receptive audience of gals rubbing elbows with tech billionaires might make it hard for her to become the next elizabeth warren. hillary envisions no more blue or red state division, she has an all-new color scheme in mind. >> there are a lot of things i'd love to see our country do. i'd like to bring people from right, left, red, blue, into a warm purple

opposition to the aca was much more long-lived than the obama administration expected and hhs ended ups. as it stands you can get subsidies no matter what kind of exchange your state has whether it's owned or a federally run exchange. the lawsuit at the supreme court argues that the federal subsidies were never meant to apply to the federally run exchanges. they quote the text of the aca that the subsidies would apply to exchanges established by the state. the administration maintains that the language encompasses it all that applied to both federal and state-run exchanges. in march the supreme court will hear those arguments. that f they strike down the subsidies, 10 million people could lose their health insurance and republicans would get what they wanted. the affordable care act president obama's crowning achievement would fall apart. joining us now is professor of law and political science at yale university. the deputy director of the manhattan institute center for medical progress and the president of the group and a business and political marketing consultant. tara i want to as

in the case of the federal government actually hhs, we first announced this, i think within minutes if i remember right literally came out and said you can't do this. i think it was a story in a publication on the hill, we push back and had our attorneys point out that yes, we could do that. within about 15 minutes to half an hour they changed the story because they realized legally we couldn't. it wasn't because of a whole lot of assistance to provide flexibility. >> coming back to something you mentioned a couple times which is the importance of education, training initiatives in wisconsin and the food stands to educational training, workplace training. where else would you like to do that if you could to make the safety net more work from the? >> we would like to go the whole spectrum. we start out with trained ability. with -- for adults without kids, those without children, we start out with a pilot, expanding statewide to see need to be enrolled in employability. the other thing i introduced that will be in my budget next tuesday is adding to that not just for food stamps, medica